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This isn’t the first time Holland & Knight seized an opportunity from a flailing Big Law competitor. In 2013 and 2014, the Florida-founded firm picked away several Patton Boggs practice heads, including a 23-lawyer chunk of its Dallas office, two members of firm management and several other partner. The majority of the laterals were corporate finance lawyers.
Dickstein Shapiro went from 343 attorneys in 2012 to fewer than 160 attorneys last month.
Dickstein currently has fewer than 120 lawyers, with almost half of them listed as partners on the website.
Since Jan. 1, the firm has lost 18 partners, including the Connecticut office, the managing partner of the Washington, D.C., office, Richard Leveridge, and antitrust litigators James Martin and Jennifer Hackett.
On Monday, Loeb & Loeb announced it had picked up another Dickstein Shapiro partner in Washington, Neil Lefkowitz, a corporate-transactions specialist.
Christine Simmons of the New York Law Journal contributed to this report. This post, originally published Jan. 29, was updated with additional information about where the Dickstein lawyers are moving.
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